Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abbey of Moutier-Saint-Jean from which these capitals originated was in the department of Cote-d'Or in the valley of the Recome, a few miles above Semur. Little now remains of this church, originally built by the Abbott Bernard II who was elected Abbott in 1109, and died in 1133. Since the size and architectural forms of the capitals indicate that they supported heavy transverse ribs, they must therefore have been carved before...
...Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...
...practical as well as a pious man. He calmly observed that the Depression prayer had merely been authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general use. Of the fact that Dean William Foxley Norris had an nounced that the prayer would not be used in Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop took no notice. He had bigger things afoot than praying for his country's pocketbook. The biggest thing that Dr. Lang has been working on is a cause of much concern to his great brother-in-God, Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop and the Pope have never...
...Conant 15, Associate Professor of Architecture, will lecture at 4.30 Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on the recent discoveries and excavations on the site of Cluny Abbey in France. Conant was the leader of an expedition of the Medieval Academy of America which carried on these excavations during the past summer and will show a series of slides in connection with his lecture...
Excavations were carried on in and around the abbey with a view to disclosing ruins which might throw some light on the early history of the place. Numerous pictures of the foundation which is almost intact, will be shown...